`At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone. What she had in mind was a vacation, pure and simple.A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband.; e a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down a retirement residence; a woman is mistaken for a vampire, and, most deliciously, a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. Nine wicked tales….